City of Thieves is a WWII fiction that sticks out in my brain. Can 10th graders read Things Fall Apart because that book shook me. I love the idea of speed dating books in a classroom!!
I read Number the Stars in elementary school! And my mom and I went to a mother-daughter book club about it!
Also, my *other* favorite book in elementary school was WWII related. It's called Bat 6 by Virginia Euer Wolff. It takes place in Oregon a few years after WWII, but deals with the direct fallout. It's about two opposing girls softball teams, and is written in their voices. 10/10 from me.
City of Thieves is a WWII fiction that sticks out in my brain. Can 10th graders read Things Fall Apart because that book shook me. I love the idea of speed dating books in a classroom!!
My 10th graders read Things Fall Apart in their English class. I teach a big unit on African resistance to European colonialism to prep them :)
Amazing!! I came to it much later in life. I wonder how it would have hit with 10th grade me.
What a great activity to do with nonfiction picture books! Thanks for sharing.
The key is lots of different books on the same topic, so it works for WWII...not so much for King Leopold's genocide in Congo :(
I read Number the Stars in elementary school! And my mom and I went to a mother-daughter book club about it!
Also, my *other* favorite book in elementary school was WWII related. It's called Bat 6 by Virginia Euer Wolff. It takes place in Oregon a few years after WWII, but deals with the direct fallout. It's about two opposing girls softball teams, and is written in their voices. 10/10 from me.
I've never read that one! I'll have to check it out
I read lesson plans like this and wish I could be in class again! Love it.☺
I also wish I could go back to school! I'd be such a better student this time around :)
Great idea! I've never heard of doing "speed dating" with books before.
The name is a cheap gimick, but I'll resort to cheap gimicks all day long if they get my kids reading :)
It was such a peaceful teaching day too. We history teachers don't get nearly enough SSR time!